At the same time, Studialis, a French higher education group, is expanding and acquiring schools in a range of sectors: management, IT, arts and crafts, etc.

[4] On 13 February 2020, US investment fund Providence Equity announced the sale of its majority stake in the Galileo Global Education group for an estimated €2.3 billion.

[8] The Group's use of online training, as with its subsidiary Studi, guarantees high profitability, since the formula saves on premises and reduces the number of teachers.

[21] In February 2023, the group was the target of an investigation by the French newspaper Libération into ‘the underbelly of an educational business that prospers thanks to the laissez-faire attitude of the state’.

[22] In 2024, the French public television channel France 2's programme Complément d'Enquête gave the floor to a Galileo executive who said that financial interests were more important than educational ones.